Not to belabor this, but I'm wondering if you have any insights on the defaultbrowser issue mentioned earlier. Something is different with slacko.
If I load pfix=ram & install notecase-pro, clicking on links or their "go to home" link doesn't work correctly. The same pet works correctly in Dog, Lucid, etc., so the issue appears unique to slacko.

Just to add a little to the Reboot - Shut-down saga.
01micko commented that Barry's tinkering with the first shut-down script may have created the problem. This may be right as I just tried my racya1 frugal on this desktop and it too reboots when a power-off was chosen from the shut-down menu. Wary-5.1.4 is fine.

This shut-down problem happens after I have set up my save files, and happens with full installs. Maybe trying to fix the initial shut-down has created a minor bug in the later shut-downs for certain computers?

But I think racya1 also has a problem with the radeon driver on my computer because I don't actually see the shut-down text lines - the monitor goes black when I hit 'power-off the computer' but then starts up again rather than shutting down.

Another poster with the failure to power down slackob4 on his computer said he didn't see the text lines I was seeing with slackob4. So maybe he also has a graphics card/driver problem during shutdown? I have had continuing problems with the Lucid-based Pups this way but not with the Slack pups so the drivers from the parent distributions seem to be not the same.

I have the new shutdown config and have reverted the sleep 2 fix.. if you remove the sleep 2 in B4 (/sbin/poweroff) it may fix the issue.. I did a test by switching poweroff and reboot and my machine powered off ok pfix=ram.

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Abiword is actually looking useful.. and actually I save stuff as odt all the time, so I bet thousands (millions?) do.. my feeling is if we support proprietary we should support foss as much as possible too, that's why I'll make the nvidia nouveau driver more prominent as well.

Originally I set my target at 120M iso.. that got torpedoed when seamonkey 2.2 arrived.. it grew by 5 meg! Now the iso is a chubby 124M

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I haven't tested, but, Abiword (in the past) has paid much more attention to the more frequent changes of DOC/DOCX than they have to the less frequent changes of the open-source ODT.

Further, when saving in ODT, aspect ratios, fonts, boxes, etc would NOT carry over when trying to open in OOo/Libre/GoogleDocs. Whereas, Abiword saving as DOCs would respect those and open properly in OOo/Libre/GoogleDocs.

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Possible that ssz has other HW issues because B4 now works with all my SiS video systems.

How could this even be possible when my SiS card totally supports 1440x900 IN EVERY OTHER PUPPY I USE. (Racy-Wary, Drake, Luci-529, Squeeze-499-2, NEXT, Spup-(99 &100) Squeeze-5x5, KDpup, Stardust, Quirky for some of the more recent puppy ones, and Bodhi, LPS, Geexbox, UT-TTYLinux, Free NAS, Tinycore, Joli-OS, PCLinux, Peppermint, Unity, to name but a few of the other linux programs I use (and I use them all) that give me 1440x900 without a problem)... Slacko... ain't cuttin it with my card Sage!!! But if I know 01micko like I think I do, he'll solve it for sure!!!

Someone reported SM2.4 - maybe it was lob? yesterday?
So what do you think will be the consequences?!
I just cannot understand the obsession with SM. Jemimah saw the light and switched to Midori - one respects her vision and abilities as much as yours, mick. Nothing is forever! Although my own preference is for Opera, I expect to pay a size penalty after installing. Surely that's the point? A distribution is just that - a compressed minimal vehicle to kick start any punter before customising?
If you want to win even more friends and influence people, a distro <=100Mb (50Mb would be better!) is in order. Half the US seems to be still on DUN. My friends over there are screaming because of their cr*p phone system and their greedy capitalist owners who are more concerned with lining their pockets than getting their nation connected. Oz has quite a few remote communities, too, not mentioning anyone in particular...

Video and audio worked flawless. Ethernet found through SNS. No problems. Only few remark:

- the popup to customize (Xorg / country settings) appeared twice.
- a .DOC opened with Abiword showed strange cubes, like cells of a table. Probably a missing font or w wrong interpretation of the layout.
- after SNS selection it immediately tried to connect (for 10 seconds) but there was no indication (I was staring at the wallpaper) it was doing anything (no "wait a bit" message) so I feared SNS stopped working.

Above is the reason I have made my tests. Kernel module drivers participate to the behavior of touchpad. In my Acer 5820TG 2.6.33.2 and even 2.6.35.7 ( Snow Puppy ) has that hypersensitivity problem. Some Barrys builds with some kernel ( I dont remember which versions ) had the same slow movement problem, yes.... it was quirky something.

About the fix: 2.6.38.3 - 2.6.38.4, 2.6.39.3 - 2.6.39.4 dont have those problems.
Remember that my core Ubuntu packages have been the same in all my builds. I havent included those Maverick - Natty - Oneiric packages much. I have jumped out of the boat with my builds in about Lucid Puppy 5.1 time. I have though included synclient and syndaemon from Oneiric though and in Dpup from wheezy because they work better. The options worked flawlessly with newer versions. But....the kernel made the fundamental difference. That is one reason I havent updated Snow Puppy with 2.6.35.7, it just dont behave best with my laptop touchpad.

Above just for somekind confirmation, that kernel makes the differerence...

About Slacko, no...I havent build it with woof with freshly compiled kernel to find out would it fix the touchpad problem. I just havent had time and energy to do that, but who knows....

But...if you are gonna do kernel update test version, I will test it and report.....
I think that it is worth the try. Barrys DOTconfig-2.6.39.4 does not have bluetooth modules enabled...by the way. But it has vgaswitcheroo - debugfs enabled for dual graphics switching. Also you get that new broadcom driver jim3630 has been stubbornly speaking of. You get rid of his complaints also...
I said the latter positively, no hard feelings behind. Dont take me wrong. Lol.

ok, here's what I have now for bluetooth, also enabled the scsi tempestuous mentioned, not to mention ath9k and the broadcom ones were already done. Just need the firmware

Been using SM2.4, evverything just works, speedily! Browser works, email works, composer works, Chatzilla works, and seemingly integrates very well with this desktop. Added Java and Flash. All combined in one solution....SeaMonkey.

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